They tend to film episodes about 2 months in advance, and with the preemption happening on February 15, that's only 5 weeks before airing, meaning they probably already had the episode filming wrapped at that time. In this case I think it was just impossible to work around.

Also it explains why we got a special in the middle of a two-parter. Again.

One line that had me smiling is gramps saying "A pinch is a chance." Didn't KR Lion always say that?

As for the crossovers.... well, it was fun when KR Decade entered SS Shinkenger. Then, we SS Gokaiger. Now, we have forced teamup. Thank goodness these crossovers are rarely referenced in the normal series.

Lunagel wrote:Didn't it happen during Gaim? I could just be going senile.

I'm afraid you might be going senile then. Last year's spring break special aired on schedule as far as anyone can tell. It came out the day after the movie, right before the start of Gaim's Overlord Arc, while ToQ wasn't on an arc at the time.

I'm not sure they really care much about continuity in specials like this. But couldn't they simply have taken a week off from Drive to fix this issue? Though there is probably not much they could do to synch with the movie release at this point.

AxemYellow wrote:I'm not sure they really care much about continuity in specials like this. But couldn't they simply have taken a week off from Drive to fix this issue? Though there is probably not much they could do to synch with the movie release at this point.

I really don't think they could have. KR and SS are pretty firmly in their time slots and they don't just cancel them willy-nilly.

His name was Kamen Rider Beast, not Lion, but yes, that was one of his catchphrases.

Dragg wrote:Woah~ Drive works for the police force.

Congratulations Kasumi, you just figured out something that has been troubling the police itself for more than 20 episodes now, in just a few seconds.

She figured that out because she saw Kiriko in uniform. Kiriko is the reason they've never found out. If she wasn't there, another member of the Special Cases Unit would need to be with Shinnosuke instead, and he wouldn't be able to henshin without letting the cat out of the bag. When she is absent, something conveniently happens to whoever is with him instead (like Gen fainting).

I actually really liked this special, more so than the Gaim/Toqger one. The dimensional-Shocker-shit was kind of off putting, but it's to be expected at this point with Toei's crossover movies and at least it carries over into SHT GP. Takaharu was actually not annoying and came across as a good leader this time around, which really surprises me. I willing to say Belt-san and Chief being a tinsy bit out of character was put to good effect in creating some great tension being Krim and Shinnosuke, which I enjoyed. Doctor D was a fun MOTW, but I wish Heart's gang did a little more than chitchat. Also The other Ninninger should have interacted more with Kiriko and Gou, but the team up fights were cool. Fun moment abound in this one and overall I wish to see more of these specials later on!

"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire." -Walt Whitman
Yes, you are certain Walt Whitman said that. One hundred percent positive.

Lunagel wrote:Didn't it happen during Gaim? I could just be going senile.

Nope, you're not senile. This did happen with the last special but it affected Kaito's Overlord subplot and not Kouta's Kachidoki Arms introduction.

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Kouta finished destroying the Yggdrasill Tower weapon and Kaito was halfway through getting steamrolled by the red Overlord. Then the special followed the next week (Kaito was fine, no Overlords in sight). The episode after the special put Kaito back where he was two weeks prior.

It's not the only continuity issue with Gaim. Pretty much all the movies and their tie-ins have problems.

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Takatora got his Genesis Driver at the end of the Gaim/Wizard movie but doesn't use it until episode 14. The problem here is that he gets it while Hase is still human but the first time we see him use it is after Hase has become an Invess.

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It's either in the special or Kamen Rider Taisen but Micchi calls Zangetsu his brother with Kouta and Kaito right there. They may not have heard but still.

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Similarly, there's another scene where Micchi and Takatora transform out in the open.

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After Kouta destroys the Yggdrasill Tower weapon it stops spinning for the rest of the series. But it's still spinning in Kamen Rider Taisen, which can't take place before Kouta gets the Kachidoki lockseed because he uses it in both the special and the movie.

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Episode 37 and the soccer movie have massive issues. First, Kaito seems to both enter and leave the alternate world before Kouta even gets there. Second, we see Kougane transform for the first time in the movie (his Rider Indicator appears when he equips the Driver) but he appears transformed in the episode. Third, Kouta enters the alternate world after fighting Invess somewhere completely different to where he was in episodes 36, 37 and 38. The only explanation I can think of is that Lapis kidnapped the riders from different points in time and that Kougane, for some reason, decided to return to the real world between brainwashing Kouta and being found by Mai. It's silly.

Go-On Macaroni wrote:You said yourself that Toei films ahead so, there's no way that I can think of that the writing staffs wouldn't have known about it. So therefore, it boils down to a writing problem; either Ninninjer's Kento Shimoyama introduced UFOmaru too early or Riku Sanjo (Drive's Head writer, this special) didn't coordinate well enough for things to work.

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting you, but how is Toei's writing staff supposed to know about the execution of a Japanese national by ISIS before it happens?

They wouldn't, but I'm sure Toei'd know about ~sudden last-minute changes~.
I mean, Yellow 4 in Bioman had to have a whole episode written up last-minute because the first actress left (and then an episode done to get a new member); similar deal with Hana in Den-O, Yuriko Shiratori quit so they had to quickly introduce Kohana and stuff.

If that moment, if that place was something you thought was special to you, the past doesn't have to be memories that simply drift away. Instead of the pain of being hurt, everything about that precious scene will become a light and give birth to zero.

Go-On Macaroni wrote:
They wouldn't, but I'm sure Toei'd know about ~sudden last-minute changes~.
I mean, Yellow 4 in Bioman had to have a whole episode written up last-minute because the first actress left (and then an episode done to get a new member); similar deal with Hana in Den-O, Yuriko Shiratori quit so they had to quickly introduce Kohana and stuff.

In both of those cases, you can rewrite the next episode. It doesn't affect the production pipeline since the disruptive event occurs before filming. There's basically nothing you can do if your schedule is disrupted after filming.